Abandoned in place : preserving America's space history / by Roland Miller ; foreword by Roger D. Launius ; prologue by Bob Thall ; introduction by Betsy Fahlman ; essays by Craig Covault, Pamela Melroy, and Beth Laura O'Leary.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780826356260
- 0826356265
- Launch complexes (Astronautics) -- Florida -- Cape Canaveral -- History
- Astronautics -- United States -- History
- Abandoned buildings -- Florida -- Cape Canaveral
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General)
- Abandoned buildings
- Astronautics
- Launch complexes (Astronautics)
- Florida -- Cape Canaveral
- United States
- 629.409759/27 23
- TL4027.F5 M55 2016eb
Includes index.
Print version record.
Cover -- Contents -- Abandon in Place -- FOREWORD: Recapturing Our Youth -- PROLOGUE: Then and Now -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Shooting for the Moon: The Fine Art of Space -- CHAPTER 1 First Steps -- CHAPTER 2 Mercury Redstone/Atlas -- CHAPTER 3 Research Facilities -- CHAPTER 4 Gemini Titan -- CHAPTER 5 Full Circle with the Cape's Mighty Launch Pads 40 and 41 -- CHAPTER 6 Apollo Saturn -- Remembering Pad 34 -- CHAPTER 7 The Cultural Heritage of the Moon -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Roland Miller's color photographs document the NASA, Air Force, and Army facilities across the nation that once played a crucial role in the space race.
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